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Chris Gianelloni posted <1142881216.32640.14.camel@×××××××××××××××××.net>, |
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excerpted below, on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:00:15 -0500: |
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> I made a fork of hwdata for Gentoo's needs on the LiveCD and it is |
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> hwdata-gentoo (to match hwdata-knoppix and hwdata-morphix for their |
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> respective distributions). I think it makes more sense to keep the |
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> original package name first as it shows that it is a fork of that |
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> package. |
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Agreed if keeping the old name with a gentoo prefix/suffix is chosen. |
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However, nearly all Gentoo system tools are e<whatever> (not only portage |
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related either, as there's eselect), so I'd suggest eresolv. |
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Even if resolvconf-gentoo is chosen, I'd definitely recommend an eresolv |
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symlink, simply because doing so will allow it to be listed with |
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e<tab><tab>, if one forgets the name. |
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I recall back on Mandrake, reading the cooker discussion on their regret |
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at the naming convention they had chosen, <whatever>drake, for that very |
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reason -- no simple <prefix><tab><tab> method for listing all the Mandrake |
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system tools. Gentoo has it right with the e* precedent. I believe we |
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should continue to follow it. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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